• @anticurrent@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    No one has time for family in Japan

    When I watch yt videos about people leaving the workplace at 10pm, I wonder how suicide rate isn’t way higher

    • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      4915 days ago

      This. I think there’s so much to love about Japan, especially the cultural leaning towards doing everything with respect, dignity, and skill.

      But the megacorpos definitely won in exploiting that, and the general social pressure revolving around workplace culture there is genuinely terrifying to me.

      As a US person, our corporate-brainwash culture is awful too, but I’m glad we’re seeing bigger working class pushes to tell our employers “Go kick rocks. My family is more important.”

      • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        America has a individualist culture. Thats why we have unions and stuff (for now, anyway…) and don’t have to blow our bosses ego until 11pm every night.

        Japan has a very…conformity driven culture. You conform to expectations around you, or you get ostracized heavily and treated like an outsider.

        Which is a big driver for this kind of “I ahve to work till 5, then drink with my boss/coworkers until midnight, because if I dont I’ll lose my job and be ostracized” stuff.

      • @Woht24@lemmy.world
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        -315 days ago

        It’s got nothing to do with megacorps, that’s just run of the mill Japanese culture/society.

    • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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      2515 days ago

      There’s a reason so much anime these days is a salaryman dying on the job and reincarnating into a fantasy world.